Show organizers announced the PAX 10 today for the upcoming Prime in Seattle. The showcase of 10 winning indie games more often than not tells us who’s up for an Independent Games Festival award the following spring.
The 10 games chosen for the showfloor at PAX Prime 2010 are:
Altitude
Bastion
Fowl Space
Hegemony: Philip of Macedon [...]
During a talk at the 2010 Develop Conference in Brighton, England, Double Fine headman and video game developer legend Tim Schafer said his studio now has four projects in development and none of them is Brutal Legend 2.
The cancellation of Brutal Legend 2 came about through the publisher’s decision (not Schafer’s). Afterward, his team split [...]
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Tickets are still available to the July 15 and 16 performances of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert at the San Francisco Symphony. Tickets to the meet-and-greet events with composer Nobuo Uematsu and conductor Arnie Roth, however, are sold out.
Each night at the Davies Symphony Hall features a slightly different set list (because God [...]
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Ubisoft Montreal hits Twitter this morning with a teaser for a secret project that apparently isn’t related to Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. It sure looks like it’s related to assassin’s though. Judge for yourself:
For crying out loud, the file name is ‘Assassin’ — what do you think this game is about?
The image showed up on the [...]
Day two of the Develop conference netted some interesting news bits, and several somewhat stale topics got fresh again with new developments. Also, we managed one of our news analysis pieces today, so it’s no shock some smaller headlines slipped by.
07/14 — Wait, so WHEN is it coming out?
Forza 3 gets ‘World Class’ cars, free [...]
Half the fun of San Diego Comic Con are exclusive freebies. Developer Trion Worlds teams up with DC Comics’ Wildstorm to create a couple just for its upcoming massively multiplayer online games MMOs, End of Nations and Rift: Planes of Telara.
The “zero issue” comics will be at DC Comics’ booth as well as Trion’s. Both [...]
Two of the biggest names in gaming made some waves as Double Fine’s Tim Schafer engaged in a pre-keynote interview about post-Brutal Legend plans while Bioware co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk spoke about the perils of game development.
Another day from the second annual Develop Conference in Brighton, England has brought a bounty of quotable quips from [...]
Nintendo revealed a handful of release dates for the U.S and Europe today, announcing that Professor Layton and the Unwound Future will go back in time eight days, while the currently Japan-only sequel to Hotel Dusk is getting translated for a European release.
First, the good news for American DS fans. Nintendo has sent word that [...]
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Microsoft’s record breaking interactive game show cancelled after two seasons.
Microsoft has confirmed that 1 vs 100, the Xbox Live game based on the TV show, will not be returning for a third series, despite early success. The show has run for two seasons, the beta series attracting a record breaking 114,000 simultaneous players – the [...]
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Nintendo platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended June 11.
Despite a weekly sales decline DSi LL remained the clear frontrunner, while Wii jumped ahead of PSP, no doubt aided by Wii Party’s chart topping opening week performance.
Hardware sales week ended July 11 (previous week):DSi LL – 28,916 (32,661) Wii – 24,604 (21,964) [...]
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